Literal ribbon cable made with conductive thread
Dan Riley made this textile ribbon cable, which has 8 wires made using conductive thread.
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Money counter flip-book animation
Too late for DIY Movie Making Month, but I couldn’t resist sharing this video created by Rethink Communications, Giant Ant Media, and Wave Productions to promote Design Week Vancouver, which is coming up at the end of April. They printed out over 2,000 bill-sized “frames,” ran them through a bill-counter, and filmed the stack piling up in the receiving tray to create the illusion of motion.
Analog Tape Glove
This fantastic Analog Tape Glove installation from makers SignaltoNoise really blurs the line between performance and art. I’m curious to know if there’s a Laurie Anderson sample in there somewhere. [via Core77]
Words Fail: Brass Pegasus automaton
Keith Newstead has been refining this design for twenty years. It shows. It’s gorgeous just sitting there, but when it starts to move…well, I think I audibly sighed. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
NewspaperWood
Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and design firm Vij5 created wood made from compressed newspaper. Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper. Mieke Meijer has come up with a solution to use this surplus of paper into a renewed material. When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear […]
Pictures from Arduino art show in NYC
Saturday was Alicia Gibb’s Arduino-themed art show at NYC Resistor (hackerspace in Brooklyn). It was packed, beepy, twitchy, blinky, and super fun! I had a piece in the show and took a few photos. There’s also a peek at photos to come over on the NYC Resistor site. Here’s Alicia looking super safe during setup, […]
Featured Maker: Shing Yin Khor
Shing Yin Khor is a sculptor and illustrator inspired by monsters, tentacles, mediocre science fiction movies, bikes, Dungeons and Dragons, and really adorable cats. Educated as a theatrical scenic designer and prop maker, and employed in the technology field, [I] now synthesize my eclectic skill set into accessible and affordable art ranging from desktop monster sculptures to walk-in spacepods installed at Burning Man.